She is a veteran of the Mars Desert Research Station serving on Crew 36 as
Crew Geologist on the first all-female crew to a Mars analogue station in
Utah in March 2005 and Commander of a private F.L.A.M.E. mission in June
2005 (which she shared with her three children), and will be commanding a
mission in March 2007. The final mission of F.L.A.M.E. was in
March 2008 in which Veronica Ann commanded as well.

She was assigned to work on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission that launched
in Spring 2009. She has been involved with the calibration of the
LRO Narrow Angle Camera, research in planetary geology as well as creating
education outreach materials for educators, students and members of the
general public related to the mission.

Veronica has presented at invited talks and gives lectures to schools and
space related venues. Veronica is heavily active within the academic,
scientific and non-profit sectors related to human space exploration and
settlement. She also devotes much of her time educating the next
generation of scientists, engineers and explorers. She enjoys
hiking, camping, aviation, and Clive Cussler novels.